Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Job Title:

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Salary:

depending on experience

Base:

Sunny Meed Surgery

Disclosure and Barring Service Required:

Yes Enhanced

Job Summary:

The post holder will:

Support the management of chronic diseases and QOF

Support the delivery of medicines safety agenda

Support the duty doctor with day-to-day medication queries

Support /lead in quality improvement projects involving medicines

Support medicines optimisation across the interface

Carry out medication review and medication related queries to ensure patients get the best out of their medications.

Promoting safe and evidence based prescribing within the PCN

Support the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the network service specifications within the Network Contract DES

Support the training of other staff members

Key working relationships

The post holder will develop effective working relationships with:

GPs and Practice staff

CCG Pharmacists and Technicians

Community Pharmacy

Care Home and Hub pharmacy staff

Any other healthcare provider as necessary

Key Result Areas:

To have made an effective contribution to reaching the practice vision, strategic objectives and key work programmes within the practice and Surrey Heartlands.

Supporting the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the network specifications within the Network Contract DES

Support the delivery of medicines safety agenda.

Support medicines optimisation across the interface

Support the delivery of the national action plan for tackling antimicrobial resistance

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST

OVERVIEW and SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical Pharmacy Service (CPS) within WISE 2 Primary Care Network. The post holder will be predominantly based as Sunny Meed Surgery; this may also include branch sites Greenfield and Goldsworth Park.

The clinical pharmacy service will be primarily patient facing and clinical in nature focused on improving medicines optimisation and safety working as part of a multidisciplinary team. Main elements include:

• Management of chronic diseases such as asthma, COPD, diabetes, heart failure, hypertension. Working towards Quality Outcome Framework.
• Contribute to the Greener NHS programme, promoting greener use of medications.

• Working along side the duty doctor to manage on the day queries about medications, ensuring safe and effective prescribing, following local and national guidelines.
• Undertaking structured medication review and optimisation to tackle over-medication of patients, in particular elements will include:
• Inappropriate use of antibiotics
• Withdrawing medicines no longer needed
• Structured medication reviews to support patients to take their medicines to get the best from them, reducing waste and promoting self-care.
• Dedicated focus on priority groups:
• High risk and addictive medications
• Polypharmacy
• Care Home residents
• Frail elderly
• Patients with complex needs taking large numbers of different medicines.
• Management of medicines after discharge from hospital, reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals and intermediate care including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and manages these changes without referral to a GP.
• Promoting safe and evidence-based prescribing within the PCN
• Leading on the implementation new guidelines and recommendations on medicines use.
• Manage the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines and, liaison with specialist pharmacists
• Supporting the practice to meet CQC standards around prescribing and medicines.
• Acting on medicines safety alerts and managing medication shortages.
• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individualised patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups.
• Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate period of time e.g. acute conditions, minor ailments, long term condition reviews etc.
• Supporting the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the network service specifications within the Network Contract DES with a particular focus on the structured medications review and optimisation specification and the enhanced health in care homes specification.
• Undertake and complete the Primary care Pharmacy Education Programme and independent prescribing if required
• Support the delivery of the Medicines Safety agenda and medicines related QoF quality improvements
• Collaborate with pharmacy colleagues across the different sectors to ensure medicines optimisation across the interface.
• Supporting further integration of general practice with the wide healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes.
• To assist in the training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare workers
• Be involved in clinical pharmacy training/teaching to pre-registration pharmacists, technicians and junior pharmacists.
• Provide pharmaceutical education and training to other healthcare staff in all areas to which you have a responsibility.
• Take part in the system wide education and training programmes for all healthcare staff.
• Provide education and training to primary care healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• To follow all Health and Safety standards in compliance with the practice and PCN policies and procedures. This includes:
• Report all accidents, incidents and near misses
• Dealing with hazardous chemicals (including cytotoxic drugs) used in the department, following COSHH regulations.

Carry out the following in all areas of work to:

• Develop, review and follow all standard operating procedures (SOPs) accurately.
• Maintain accurate manual and computer records.
• Housekeeping duties
• Ensure professional and legal standards are adhered to
• To participate in specified interface project/audits, according to need that supports medicines optimisation activities. The definition of these projects will link to issues arising at PCN level and actions arising out of the medicines safety QoF QI pertaining to interface matters.

All post holders:

• Will be a member of the North West Surrey Clinical Pharmacy Network which meets bimonthly
• Will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist and by GP Clinical supervisor
• To maintain registration, as a pharmacist, with the General Pharmaceutical Council, and to act in accordance with the code of ethics.
• The post holder agrees to participate in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) including further training and learning in order to develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and values to become competent in the duties described. To undertake peer review and competency based assessment to ensure required standards of service are maintained.

Other:

All Pharmacy staff will maintain confidentiality with regard to any information about patients, confidential information about the practice and commercial information (for example, contract prices for drugs)

It is the responsibility of every employee to take reasonable care of their own health and safety and the health and safety of anyone else who may be affected by what they do.

This job description is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of the practice and in consultation with the post-holder.

Your hours are based on a whole time week of 37.5 hours. Hours are calculated excluding meal breaks and are to be worked in accordance with the needs of the service and as agreed with your manager. The way in which the contracted hours are worked may change in accordance with the needs of the service, following consultation

General responsibilities

To support the department and organisation by carrying out any other duties that reasonably fit within the broad scope of a job of this grade and type of work.

Qualifications

Essential

• Attitude, Behaviour and Values
• Always puts patients first
• Customer service focus
• Willing and able to take personal responsibility
• Demonstrates passion for excellence
• Seeks out and takes opportunities for improving the service offered
• Takes pride in their work and their team
• Flexible in their attitudes and behaviours to support team working and delivery of objectives
• Respects, values and cares for others
• Supports learning and development of self and others
• Supports and promotes equality and diversity
• Qualifications and Further Training
• M.Pharm degree in Pharmacy (4 years vocational degree).
• 1 year post graduate training followed by professional entrance exam.
• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training / experience (7)
• Independent prescriber qualification or willing to work towards
• Desirable:
• Independent Prescriber (7)
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• A member working towards Faculty membership of the RPS
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training, experience (8a)
• Completion the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
• Experience
• Significant relevant post qualification experience
• Desirable:
• Experience of working in primary care
• Knowledge
• NHS Constitution
• Practice vision, values, strategic objectives and key work programmes
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Desirable:
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
• The NHS Long Term Plan and current primary care objectives
• Skills
• Must be able to demonstrate, in relation to patients, visitors, colleagues and other individuals connected with the practice and NHS:
• You have knowledge & awareness of diversity and human rights as appropriate to your role
• You are able to communicate effectively to ensure high standards of care, treatment, service or support as appropriate to your role,
• Patient facing roles -be able to understand an individuals communication, physical & emotional needs; recognise their needs and preferences
• Able to provide a customer focussed service
• Effective communication skills written, verbal and presentation. Organisation and prioritisation skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Time management skills.
• Literature searching skills.
• Computer literacy

Desirable

• Desirable:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g patients)
• Use of EMIS web clinical IT system
• Other requirements
• Able to demonstrate that you are honest, reliable and trustworthy
• Treat patients, visitors, colleagues with respect
• Ability to travel between the practice and off site unit sites
• Ability to be flexible to meet the needs of the team, the service and the practice
• Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Able to work under pressure.
• Enthusiastic and committed with a positive response to change.
• Flexible and reliable.
• Friendly and approachable.
• Evidence of personal insight and sound judgement.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).